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eCommerce and Online Shops

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Do you want to sell something online? Accept payments from customers and clients? Operate an online store selling a range of products? Welcome to the world of eCommerce.

Online shopping is a booming business – just think of eBay, Amazon and the hundreds of sites, big and small, that we all visit or know about.

There is a misconception that setting up an online shop is easy – mostly perpetuated by the companies who want you to use their shopping cart software. Sure some software is relatively easy to set up, but an eCommerce project is a lot more than just the shopping cart. Just like a real shop, there are countless considerations:

Domain name

Design and branding

Layout

Catalogue

Features

Currency

Payment methods

Payment gateways

Security

Hosting

Choice of software

Policies surrounding such things as refunds, privacy and delivery

Suppliers and stock

Quality control

Order fulfilment and processing

Website updating and maintenance

Customer relationship management

Marketing the business

Competitiveness and size of your market

Overall traffic levels of people searching for your type of product

Copy writing

Photography

Postage and delivery

And many more aspects too numerous to list.

Cyrius has been responsible for setting up a number of successful online stores, so we know everything that is involved. To get your online shop up and running, you need to work with a company who can guide you, advise you and manage the entire production process to ensure it is a success.

What we do:

Full assessment of your needs and goals

Research your market

Determine the right solution and budget

Design the Website

Produce the Website

Market the Website

Provide ongoing consultation on every aspect of the project and your business, to ensure your plans are realised

To get your eCommerce project up and running, or to rescue a project that has run in to trouble because it was not managed professionally from the beginning, contact us.